Jungle 7s

Jungle 7s is a pokies game available at Microgaming casinos. The Microgaming platform is one of the most popular in the industry. Jungle 7s isn’t available at all casinos powered by Microgaming; the member casinos are able to pick and choose which games they offer. But it’s a popular title and easy to find at most of the Internet casinos we recommend.

Jungle 7s is a part of Microgaming casinos’ library of traditional pokies, games sometimes called “classic” or “retro.” This category is reserved for machines with few modern features. It’s common for a classic game to have an uncomplicated theme, three reels of symbols, one pay line (three lines at the most), and a low range of available wagers.

It’s rare for a traditional game to include a progressive jackpot, but Jungle 7s is part of Microgaming’s progressive network. The game’s appearance makes it easily-identifiable as a classic poker machine, with a single screen containing the pay table, the buttons used for play, and the reels and pay line arrangement, with no additional screens used for bonus games.

Traditional Pokie Games

Traditional pokies are designed as a kind of homage to games from the mid-20th century, before poker machines were the most popular bets in casinos. Jungle 7s is an atypical classic game because it includes a few modern features; besides the progressive jackpot, other contemporary features include the use of a wild symbol and a multiplier.

Traditional poker machines have a loyal following, not in spite of this lack of the latest features but actually because the games eschew licensed themes and HD graphics. If you’ve ever seen an antique Aristocrat game (titles produced during the golden era of the most famous Australian game designer) from the 1950s or 1960s, the look of Microgaming’s classic titles will be familiar. In the mid-20th century, pokies usually had a simple arrangement of three reels and one pay line. Jungle 7s may have some advanced features of contemporary machines but they are designed to attract gamblers that are looking for the simple rules and less-sophisticated style of casino games from days past.

Theme & Reel Symbols

Microgaming’s collection of poker machines, classic or modern, includes a number of wilderness-themed titles. Jungle 7s appears to be inspired by the first Indiana Jones movie, with stone totems, vine-covered pokie symbols, and cryptic tribal glyphs.

Most of the reel symbols used in the game aren’t related to the theme; in fact, the only themed symbol is the wild, which spells out the name of the game with crumbling stones wrapped in foliage. Only five other symbols appear on the reels – three different-coloured sevens, and the traditional poker machine bars and cherries in different groups, each of which lead to a different payout.

Bet Variety

It’s common for Microgaming’s progressive poker machine games to have a fixed credit value; the games are set up that way to help build the progressive network pay outs; rather than allow some wagers as low as $0.01 (which won’t help build the large up-ticking pay out much) the game requires a standard coin size of all bettors. All credits on this game are worth $0.25. The variety of bets comes from the player’s choice of between one and three credits per round. Bettors can spend $0.25, $0.50, or $0.75 each time the reels are set in motion.

Since none of the allowed wagers are particularly expensive, it doesn’t make sense to not wager the maximum three credits per spin; the only way to win the biggest prizes in the game (both static and progressive) is to bet three credits per spin. Since this title’s progressive is its most attractive feature and the other jackpots aren’t particularly valuable, why would you spend your time playing if you weren’t chasing that large progressive?

Progressive Prize Details

But winning that progressive prize requires more than a three-credit wager; winning the prize also requires lining up three wild symbols (the game logo in a circular stone totem) after increasing the title’s special multiplier meter all the way to 7x.

How do players increase the value of the meter? The progressive only goes to a bettor who spins the progressive combo after doing it six times in the same session. The meter ticks up one notch each time the combo appears. But it’s even more complex than that – each time a bettor wins a jackpot of 150 credits or more, the counter resets. In other words, to win this progressive payout, you have to do a good bit of losing. It’s a unique feature not seen on many other games in this company’s collection.

Of course, since this is a classic pokie with low wagers and jackpots, the progressive prize is also pretty small. It resets to $700 after each time a player on the network wins it. The largest progressive wins ever recorded for this game are in the six figures, though it appears to usually be worth in the mid-five figures.

Special Features

The wild symbol, as already described, incorporates the logo of the pokie itself, something Microgaming does often in their game designs. It substitutes for all other symbols in the game to form a winning combo. When a player lines up three of these symbols, they win the game’s biggest fixed prize (15,000 credits for three-credit wagers) and the multiplier meter ticks up one notch.

That multiplier meter increases the size of the next jackpot of 150 credits or more by the number on the meter: 1x, 2x, 3x, etc. Players lucky enough to swell the meter’s multiplier all the way to 6x are then eligible for the progressive, as described in the progressive details section above.

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